“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately,” Olive Cromwell, leader of the opposition to the district, said. “Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

Members of the town committees and the regional commission agreed to resign and were spared the chopping block.

The OKH’s continued opposition to industrial-scale wind turbines prompted mounting criticism. At one meeting, Cromwell, a director of Crown Power Now, pleaded with the Barnstable committee after another project denial: “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”

Cromwell led the campaign to create the New King’s Highway District under the slogan, “Our way for the Highway.”